Quid sum? (What am I?) Latin writing game

[Glabrigausapes]

Right on the money, hombre.

 

[Issacus Divus]

Ah!

 

[Bitmap]

lumine nos luget novior lacrimante poeta.

Spoiler

(tam novus ut doleat nescius ille metri)

 

[Pacifica]

Hmmmm.... The victims of the Tay Bridge Disaster?

 

[Bitmap]

No ... did anyone write a Latin poem about that? oO

 

[Pacifica]

Not as far as I know, but you didn't say the poet in question had to be a Latin one.

 

[Bitmap]

Oh btw, I have a kinda strict understanding of what "metre" is in there

 

[Bitmap]

Spoiler

(and you have to "translate" the hexameter a bit)

 

[Pacifica]

The blows of Fortune (Fortunae vulnera)? That poem doesn't have a quantitative meter.

 

[Bitmap]

Yes1

 

[Pacifica]

BTW I wrote an English version of that a few years ago. It has several flaws but here it is.

 

[Pacifica]

Super me nulla tuto volat avis; qua ex re nomen traho. Id nomen quod sit dic, quaeso.

 

[Bitmap]

Are you an aligator?

 

[Pacifica]

No.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Avernus es.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Aut 'Averna', sodes.

 

[Pacifica]

Avernus (Lacus).

Your turn.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

In speculo bis videor tecum, si adsim, et per et rursum.

 

[Pacifica]

The eye (oculus)? This is assuming a defect in the grammar.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Hmm, close. Something inorganic/material.